Button-setting machine



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E. H. TAYLOR.

BUTTON SETTING MACHINE. No. 393,730. Patented Nov. 2'7. 1888'.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EUGENE H. TAYLOR, OF LYNN, ASSTGNOB TO THE AMERICAN SHOE TIP COMPANY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

BUTTON-SETTING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 393,730, dated November 2'7, 1888.

Application filed September 21, 1888. Serial No. 286.008.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EUGENE H. TAYLOR, of Lynn, county of Essex, and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and use ful Improvementsin Button-Setting Machines, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the drawings accompanying and forming a part hereof, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a hand-set embodying my invention, with the handles broken away. Fig.2 is a front elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a section on line y y, Fig. 2, and showing a button and fastener in position to beset. Fig. 4 is a section on line x :r, Fig. I. Fig. 5 is a view of the upperjaw from below.

The object of my invention is the production of a simple and effective device for securing or setting buttonsin leather or similar material by means of staples or fasteners; and it consists in a machine provided with jaws adapted to approach "and recede from each other, one of said jaws carryingan anvil for turning and clinching the prongs of" the fasteners and the other carrying a guide-tube for the button and fastener, and a driver having a movement relatively to said guide-tube and within the same for forcing the fastener through the material and setting the button, said parts being constructed and arranged as hereinafter described.

Ihave shown my invention as embodied in what is known as a hand set, although it can be obviously applied as well to a machine operated by foot or other power.

In the drawings like letters of reference indicate like parts.

A is the upperjaw of the machine, and A its attached handle, while B represents the lower jaw, and B the handle by which it is operated. These jaws are pivoted together, as shown at O, in the well-known manner. An anvil, a, is set in the lower jaw, B, as shown, and secured in place by a. set-screw, I). (See Fig. 3.) The end of thejaw A is bored to receive the guide-tube f and to permit the tube A spring, 9, is

placed in a slot in the under side of the jaw A, as shown in Fig. 3, the end of the spring 50 being received in a recess or hole, h, in the l guide-tube.

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After the guide-tube has been forced up by the pressure of the lower jaw in setting a button the spring g acts to throw it down again. The stop-pin j, set in the guide above the jaw, prevents the guide from being thrown too far down by thespring g.

The jaw A is slotted on its under side, as

shown at k, to receive the driver Z, which'is of the T shape shown. (See Fig. 4.) The upper part or cross portion of the T is received in the slot 70, and serves to hold the driver stationary'in the jaw A. The lower end of the driver is of the wellknown shape adapted to receive the shoulders of a fastener or staple to drive or set the same. The guide-tube f has a vertical slot, m, in its upper portion, in which the upper part of the driver is received, and the lower portion of the guide-tube is slotted, as shown at 1), Figs. land 5, to receive the fastener and the eye of the button, as well as to receive the downwardly-projecting portion of the driver.

The operation of the device is as follows: The jaws being open, a fastener, which has been previously supplied with a button, is inserted into the guide-tube underneath the driver, as shown in Fig. 3. The material in which the button is to be set is then placed between the jawsand thejaws are brought together. As they approach each other the guide-tube recedes against the pressure of spring 9, allowing the driver to force the prongs of the fastener through the material and against the anvil, by which they are turned and clinched. Two depressions, r, Fig. 2, on the face of the anvil serve to turn the points of the prongs of the fastener.

What I claim is- '1. In a button setting implement, the combination, with an anvil, of a driver of the T shape shown, secured to the jaw A, and a guide-tube slotted from end to end, thelower portion of said slot being adapted to receive the downwardly-projecting end of the driver, and the upper portion thereof extending across said guide-tube to accommodate the upper or cross portion of said driver, substantially as described.

2. The combination, in abutton-sett-ing machine, of the jaw A, the T-shaped driver Z, ser00 cured hyits upperor cross portion to said jaw, button and attached fastener, the spring 51, the gnide-tubof, mounted in said jaw and hovand the ciinching-mivil a, substantially as (lc- IO ing an open slot across its upper portion to scribed.

receive the cross portion of said driver, and a 3 i i Y 1 Y 5 narrower vertical slotin its lower portion ex- LUGMM tending from said open slot to the lower end \Vitncsses: 'otsnirl gnide tnbe to receive the downwardlyl WM. A. \LmLnoo, proiccting portion of said driver, as also a llonnn'r \VALLAUl-l. 

